Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what that Jerry's dad puts his face in front of his car's exhaust pipe so that his eyes will look red and swollen when he moves the couch down-stairs? So what if dad reads books written by Ph.D.'s on how to pack car trunks just before the family goes on vacation? Does the whole world have to know...
...OEDIPUS complex. Dad's piling on perfectionist pressure, throwing temper tantrums--maybe smacking up Mom a bit. Monday Night Football's making him increasingly violent and you think maybe it's time for a family counselor. But before you start bitching, maybe you should ask yourself this basic question: how many families has Dad butchered...
Elliott, the virtual personification of rumpled Englishness, gives the same endearing performance he did as the dad in A Room with a view. Unfortunately, Elliott's character dies of a heart attack 45 minutes into the picture, leaving Byrne and a mediocre, no-name cast to carry the balance...
Everyday life in Amerika is not hard to recognize. People still complain about the government and the hard economic times, only now it is the Soviets who are to blame. Parents still have fights with their children, only now the argument over whether Dad has pulled strings to get his daughter into a dance company has nasty overtones of political collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks...
...denied that Roberts had any health problems, and he repeated the give-now-or-else plea on his show last week. It was reinforced by his evangelist son Richard, 38, in a mass mailing that contained an entreaty for cash. Wrote Richard: "Let's not let this be my dad's last BIRTHDAY...